cognitohazard-gravity:

that-banhus:

keitrinkomfloukru:

guerrillatech:

I remember when I saw Office Space the first time, this movie where the whole theme is that office work sucks, but the main characters show up for work and then immediately just fuck off to a restaurant for at least an hour and my jaw just sagged. They’re on the clock and they’re half a mile from work hanging out and shooting the shit and hitting on a waitress…? how are they not getting fired?

I’ve done both, and the whiplash of going from a job where I got called in for a chat with my boss for calling in sick ONE(1) day during the entire time i worked there, where I was still visibly sniffly during the chat, just so they were sure I knew they’d catch me for faking sick, and having daily numerical targets to meet and little graphs of my hour by hour performance, to a PhD where my supervisor goes “hey Bones what are you doing these days send me words” every, oh, 2-3 months is fucking wild.

Low wage workers are a) CRIMINALLY underpaid, and b) it was utterly humiliating and degrading to be treated like that as an adult. I’d never given them any reason not to trust me, and was frequently commended by my immediate supervisor, but company policy was that we be treated like we couldn’t be trusted an inch regardless.

Low wage workers also frequently have their outside of work hours tightly regulated.

It’s a common practice to never have your schedule more than 2 weeks in advance so you can hardly ever plan anything. Not to mention if someone calls out you will get called to fill in for them, usually with barely enough notice to get ready and drive there. Sure you can say no……but then you’re a bad employee and risk getting your hours cut or other retribution.

I remember when I worked the nightshift at a fast food place and it was frequent that we only had a week or less of our upcoming schedule. Sometimes we would close the store and not know what anyone’s hours were for the next day, (which was in 5 hours) multiple days in a row!

My mom works at a grocery store and is constantly getting called in, to the point that she has had to remind them that she has already worked the amount of hours they allow anyone to get. Their solution wasn’t hiring more reliable people, it was to schedule her for less so they could call her in more.

But that’s their plan isn’t it? After all if you’re depressed from not seeing friends/family, exhausted from spending spoons you couldn’t know to save, or can’t schedule an interview during work hours youre way less able to look for a better job. Which keeps you from wondering why all the jobs are like this

And don’t even get me started on rules against “unprofessional” hair or body modifications